aspergers. left or right brian

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Like I said before I have no dominance between the hemispheres. However, I do believe I am more left brianed.

I scored 5 for right.

In the meantime, I was thinking that I have some kind of visual trait, no matter how I stated earlier. The question in the test asked about geometry vs. algebra in maths. In maths, no. But in physics, absolutely YES! I'm just realizing after some recent conversations, that most people do not have the level I thought they have (I did not see my ability that unique). Actually, I see physics 3 dimensional (adding 4th, time), and make the connection between verbal/algebral and visual model. To me, it just not works other way.

I am both left- and right-brained, although I'm more left. I'm a scientist who is both very verbal and logical, and I see the "spinning dancer" puzzle turn counterclockwise. But I think in both pictures and words, I love to draw, and I'm terrible at math. I'm also left-handed, which probably plays a role. I'd love to get tested to see which hemisphere my Broca's area and other speech centers are located. I really wouldn't be surprised if they were in the right hemisphere.

You responded as a right brained person to 11 questions, and you responded as a left brained person to 7 questions.

You responded as a right brained person to 15 questions, and you responded as a left brained person to 3questions. According to the Hemispheric Dominance test, you use your right brain the most.

I can see the dancer go in both directions. When I first loaded it up, I saw it going counter-clockwise. Now I see it going clockwise. And it's switched a few times before, too.

Most of the tests I've taken, though, say I'm more left-brain oriented than right-brain. I think I can do both just fine, though.

You responded as a right brained person to 9 questions, and you responded as a left brained person to 9 questions.

My left and right get confused all the time. I'll pick up a pencil with my left hand and not realize it until I go to write and it doesn't feel right. Anything I do with my right, except for write and draw, I can do with my left hand equally or better. I think if I practiced writing and drawing as much with my left hand as I have my right, I could easily be as good with it.

As far as thinking visually or in words, I do both a little. I guess words would be predominate, but neither seem concrete as to my way of thinking.

I think this left brain/right brain stuff is mostly pop psychology rather than actual neurology. But for the test I got the following result: "You responded as a right brained person to 4 questions, and as a left brained person to 14 questions."

I've done tests with more questions and got scores which put me slightly left brained or slightly right-brained.

Brain lateralization, and the generally described "difference" between the hemispheres, is REAL.

If it wasn't, Broca and Wernicke would've been deemed frauds by now. The WHOLE FIELD of neuropsychology would be as valid as your daily horoscope. But it isn't! It corresponds with reality--it's a valid science.

Perhaps some people have taken the notion of brain lateralization, and the general characteristics attributed to each hemisphere, and "run wild" with them, using them to draw invalid conclusions. The fact that these conclusions aren't valid DOESN'T mean that the whole notion of brain lateralization is.

Brain lateralization is real.

But the general pop-psychology characterizations of left brain and right brain are outright silly compared to the realities of brain lateralization. Moreover, real brain lateralization has a lot of variety to it. Some people have their hemispheres lateralized exactly backwards from normal. Some people have lateralization where it's more like, the mix of things normally attributed to both sides is different than usual. Sometimes this only becomes obvious after a stroke or brain surgery, especially on left-handed people who may have incredibly varied reactions compared to normal, some of which can be devastating when something very different was expected.

And it's also pretty silly to go around using Broca and Wernicke to justify the sort of pop-psychology things being discussed in this thread, like "right-brained people are more creative". Most creativity uses both sides of the brain, unless a person lacks one side of their brain or lacks connectivity between both sides. Just because brain lateralization exists doesn't mean that everything attributed to brain lateralization is even remotely real. Real scientists think the pop psychology stuff is silly too. Many of the things attributed to "right" or "left" brain in pop psychology, not just creativity, are actually normally done by cooperation between both sides of the brain. It just doesn't work like this, and bringing up the fact that brain lateralization exists doesn't mean that everything attributed to it automatically exists as well.